Managem Group generates over half a billion euros of revenues a year, bringing massive wealth to the Moroccan monarchy. Producing gold, cobalt, precious metals and other minerals inside and outside Morocco, the company is rich but not without its own controversies. In Imider, where the company produces silver, the local Berber communities live in poverty, with no socioeconomic infrastructure, no hospitals, no schools, outdated roads, among other problems.
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